RIVANT

SXP

On My Mind

Cover art for SXP’s EP, and the stories and thumbnail that went out with it.

Year
2024
What we did
Cover art, Photo editing, Social media design
The On My Mind cover: a figure in night-navy with cyan loops scribbled over the face, ON MY MIND in distressed typewriter capitals, SXP at the top and a Parental Advisory mark.
The On My Mind cover: a figure in night-navy with cyan loops scribbled over the face, ON MY MIND in distressed typewriter capitals, SXP at the top and a Parental Advisory mark.
The source photo: a man in the dark, looking down, lit red from below.

Drag across, or use the arrow keys. Photo by Leon-Pascal Janjic on Unsplash.

Before and after

A stock portrait, lit red in the dark. We turned the red to night-navy, cut the figure out and scribbled cyan loops over the face, then set the title in a distressed typewriter face and laid scan lines, paper grain and a plastic-wrap texture on top.

The layers, top to bottom

  1. Plastic textureColour dodge
  2. Paper texture18%
  3. SXPArtist name
  4. Parental AdvisoryFor streaming
  5. On My MindMom’s Typewriter, over a blurred copy
  6. Scan-print textureSoft light, 61%
  7. Hue/SaturationRed light to blue
  8. Threshold19%
  9. ScribbleCyan loops, over a blurred copy
  10. FigureCut out of the photo
  11. Brush highlights25%
  12. PhotoLeon-Pascal Janjic, Unsplash

The cover

The On My Mind cover: a figure in night-navy with cyan loops scribbled over the face, ON MY MIND in distressed typewriter capitals, SXP at the top and a Parental Advisory mark.

Square, for the streaming services, with the title set low and large under the loops.

Format
Square, 3000 × 3000 px
Title
Mom’s Typewriter, distressed
Artist name
Top, centred
Parental Advisory
Bottom right

Release kit

Three stories around the release, in the cover’s type and colour, and a thumbnail for the video.

  1. Before Teaser

    Teaser story: NEW EP DROPPING SOON in distressed type over blurred cyan shapes, SXP repeated along the top and bottom.

  2. Release day EP out

    Release-day story: the cover's figure and cyan loops, ON MY MIND, EP OFFICIALLY OUT! and spotify/SXP.

  3. After Now playing

    Now-playing story: the figure with the title inside the loops, On My Mind by SXP, a progress bar and playback controls.
Video thumbnail: the figure centred in night-navy, ON MY MIND large at the bottom right and a Parental Advisory mark at the bottom left.
Video thumbnail

Credits

Artist
SXP
Services
Cover art, Photo editing, Social media design
Photo
Leon-Pascal Janjic on Unsplash
Title type
Mom’s Typewriter
Studio
Rivant Media